Vernon, CT, USA
I was 7 years old when I saw this object, and I will never forget it. I was at a schoolmates house, around 6 pm I was saying goodbye at
Report quality: Moderate55/100
This score reflects report-quality signals on file — how complete, corroborated, and precisely located the report is — not a claim about whether the sighting was a real craft.
- Duration parsed: 6s, a plausible sighting length
- Detailed witness text (135 characters)
- Location geocoded exactly
- No other reports from this city within 3 days
- When
- 1965-10-10
- Where
- Vernon, CT, USA
- Shape
- Triangle
- Duration
- 5-7 seconds
- Geo
- 41.819, -72.480 · exact
- Slug
- triangle-over-vernon-ct-1965-945460
Part of a wave
The Mid-Sixties Wave
United States (nationwide), with strong echoes in South America and Australia
The wave that broke the Air Force. Blackout-night sightings over the Northeast (1965), the Exeter close encounters, police chases in Ohio, a schoolyard mass sighting in Melbourne (Westall), and a documented 'crash-dive'…
In context
- Vernon, CT has 8 sightings on file here.
- 1965 brought 9 reports from Connecticut.
- The 1960s skewed 4.3% triangle reports; the archive-wide figure is 9%.
Report
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